Stephen Fry stars in online pirate game
p2pnet news view Games | Advertising:- Sadia and Zarrar have come uo with a way to cash in on Stephen Fry.
A famous British actor, writer, comedian, author, television presenter and film director, Fry recently, and not at all shamefacedly, admitted he was a file sharer.
Zarrar says he’s the, “company driver, morning cleaner, dish washer and occasionally the best salesperson in the world” for t-enterprise, a “leading software development company in Scotland”.
Sadia says she’s the boss.
Now T-Enterprise is using Fry in a company promo.
“Search engine optimisation brings the missing element to your website; users,” it says . “You must be seen as an authority website but first of all you must be seen. Rise to the top of Google and be seen every time a user searches for you.”
Enter Stephen Fry, driving a London black cab in a flash game called Quantum Of Torrents.
It features the, “”highly intelligent but loosed lipped pirate, aka Stephen Fry, under attack from the police as he tries to pick up illegal copies of the hit US show House,” says the T-Enterprise press release. “Driving Fry`s iconic black cab, you have to avoid the law at all costs. You can shoot them to get them off your trail… with dictionaries!
“The game keeps dropping copies of the show on the ground in front of you and it is your responsibility to make sure that you pick up all the evidence of your crime or face the wrath of the long arm of the law. Use your dictionaries to keep them at bay because letting them get too close may end your pirating ways for good.”
Yes. Well ….
Sadia says she was, “very pleasantly surprised to hear about Fry`s illegal activity,” going on »»»
When I heard about Stephen Fry`s admission of guilt about downloading illegally at the iTunes Festival I could not believe it! Especially not given the fact he was supposed to be speaking out about piracy in the industry!”
So he had downloaded the rest of the series legally but it seems that there is always the temptation to take the easy route. At least he has admitted it and not gone down the hypocritical one. What a refreshing change …
When the news broke that Fry had admitted to sharing online, he updated his Twitter status to read “Hope I’m not misunderstood. Such a pity if I get misrepresented as a ‘help yourself and be a pirate’ advocate …”
So, “Ironically, within 24 hours of reading that story, with our tongues firmly in cheek, that is just what we did,” says Sadia.
Does Fry know he’ s been used as (in? 
) a promotional vehicle?
Whether he does or not, and whether or not he minds, T-Enterprise is scoring free media hits.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
file sharer – Stephen Fry admits he`s a file sharer, July 13, 2009
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